PTI
GUWAHATI, APRIL 29
Assam Government has constituted a special disaster management team for extending services to the quake-hit people from the state in Nepal.
The team will coordinate with the Indian embassy in the neighbouring country, the ministry of external affairs, ministry of home affairs, National Disaster Response Force and the Nepal Government in tracing out the missing persons, assisting the injured, evacuating stranded and injured persons as well as bodies, an official release said here today.
The team comprises of Inspector General of Police (Law and Order) S N Singh, Commanding Officer 7 APBN Debojit Mukherjee, DCP (Admn) Guwahati Commissionerate of Police, Debraj Upadhyaya, 2 I/C, Commando BN Mandakata Pranjit Bora, senior medical officer of Panbazar police hospital Indrakalpa Hazarika, Medical Officer 4 APBN Utpal Bora, a unit of State Disaster Response Force among others.
The team will immediately proceed to Kathmandu by road with personnel, vehicles, medicines and other essential commodities, the release added.
Earthquake of slight intensity felt in Assam
An earthquake of slight intensity measuring 3.5 on the Richter Scale shook Assam in the early hours Wednesday.
Met office said the epicentre was in Sonitpur district on latitude 26.8 degree north and 92.5 degree east at a depth of five km, the office said.
It was experienced shortly after midnight at 0048 hours.
No loss of life or property was immediately reported, a police official said.
Earlier on April 25, two mild tremors had been felt at Guwahati and its neighbouring areas in Assam following the devastating tremor in Nepal.
